Its only Junk, if it's not useful

Old style flatwear, otherwise referred to as cutlery, is sadly a thing of the past in most ‘modern’ homes.

Why have these beautiful pieces of silverware gone away?
There is nothing nicer than the look and feel of these bone handled knives, the curved rat’s tailed forks and spoons.

Is it that people are just lazy, and don’t want to have to wash up these pieces by hand. 
Really?? Is that true?
Or does the aesthetic of these flatware sets simply not suit the digital world and all that populates it stylistically?

 So, if you want to have a sense and connection to times past, go shopping in stores that recognises the joy of old things.  Things that have a history.  

Objects that were manufactured in times when built-in redundancy simply was not a possibility.

All washed up

One day I had a revelation when I discovered the photographic work of Bill Eggleston,
an American photographer.

He possess an eye and a sensibility which gleams beauty in every corner of

one’s ordinary world.

His work is truly significant.

I thank him.

Nothing Remarkable

A block of flats at dusk.
Nothing remarkable

unless you look at the rhythm of the elements,

then it’s a painting, a modernist image.

It’s an Edward Hopper. 
Its beautiful.
But you have to look past the surface.
It’s all there.

The Language of Manga_August's Wallism

The image of the left hand page was found in a Tokyo subway station.
It was an illuminated billboard for an advertising campaign and there were about 10 different billboards in total in the series.
The images were 19th century inspired Japanese based imagery but evoked a sense of contemporary Manga drawings for me.

The image on the right hand page is the current ‘Wallism’ of the Lord Gladstone in Chippendale, inner Sydney.